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The percentage of energy stored in assimilated food that is not used for respiration is the _________.

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90 percent. This is due to the reason energy being lost along the food chain. Assimilation is one way through which energy is lost. For consumers they are lost as 90 percent and only 10 percent of it is used for metabolic and biological reactions.
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